Geodesic based centrality: Unifying the local and the global

Social Networks

Volumn 49, Issue , 2017, Pages 12-26

  Agneessens, Filip ^a   Borgatti, Stephen P ^b   Everett, Martin G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Betweenness centrality; Closeness centrality; Degree centrality; Diversity; Node level measures; Resource richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001976235     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2016.09.005     Document Type: Article

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